ABSTRACT
In July and August 2004, the U.S. State Department sponsored a field investigation (the Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project or ADP) whose express purpose was to ascertain whether genocide had been and/or was continuing to be perpetrated in Darfur. By that point in time, the Darfur crisis had been declared “the worst humanitarian disaster in the world” by Jan Egeland, the UN Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs (UN, 2004, p. 1); the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience had issued a genocide warning with regard to the killings and death in Darfur; and both the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate had declared the crisis to be a case of genocide.
